The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and giving the fans something to cheer.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.